Summary
Hoopa Valley Elementary is a K–8 school in Hoopa, California, with 363 students, making it the largest school in the nearby comparison group. Chronic absenteeism was 65% in 2025–26, compared with 72% in its district and 18% statewide. The most important finding is that the school’s all-grade proficiency rates—8% in English Language Arts (ELA), 1% in math and 5% in science—were below the district, state and every nearby K–8 school with reported results.
The gap is large across all three subjects. In 2025–26, Hoopa Valley was 41 percentage points below California in ELA, 37 points below in math and 31 points below in science; compared with the Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified, it was lower by 12, 8 and 15 points, respectively. The four nearby schools with reported all-grade results—Orleans Elementary, Trinity Valley Elementary, Burnt Ranch Elementary and Fieldbrook Elementary—averaged 51% in ELA, 37% in math and 49% in science. ELA is Hoopa Valley’s strongest subject by its own scores, but its results were lowest among these schools in every subject.
Results over time are mixed: from 2022–23 to 2025–26, ELA proficiency rose 4 points and science rose 5 points, while math fell 2 points. The state gap narrowed slightly in ELA, from 43 to 41 points, but widened in math, from 31 to 37 points. SchoolDigger ranked Hoopa Valley 5,798th of 5,804 schools in 2025–26, at the 0th percentile and 0 stars; its reported percentile was 0 in each of the five listed years. In 2024–25, 77% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, the highest share among nearby schools with the same measure and year; this is an eligibility measure, not a measure of who receives a meal. The student-teacher ratio was 19.1, compared with a nearby-school average of 18.3.
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